tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70649027127689707772024-03-13T02:06:28.535-07:00lulumamaI am a work at home mum to one, who loves quilting, dressmaking, crochet and eating cake with my friends. Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-38061527554714249452014-03-20T14:13:00.000-07:002014-03-20T14:13:32.114-07:00<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Introducing Flo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">I have stitched and created for a long time now. Since 1999 I have been a fully qualified Costume Interpreter. "A what" I hear you say, well when you watch any kind of theatrical production on the stage or screen, the costumes will have been designed by one soul, and their designs then interpreted by another team of souls. The costume Designer is the person who gets a credit at the end of a programme/film/brochure. The Interpreters or Makers do not usually get any credit, just the satisfaction of making someone look like their character and hopefully aiding in their over all performance. Oh and we get paid...a bit...but that is another post, I could go into all the differences between working on film(big bucks) or in Theatre(sometimes not so big bucks), but I won't.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Interpreters or makers as we are more usually known sometimes work in a team, a duo or all by ourselves. If we work in a team the person in charge is called a "Cutter", because they draft and cut the garments, then the makers construct the garment and the cutter then fits the items on the actor and marks up the alterations and hands it back to the maker to finish. If we work solo we have to do all these tasks ourselves. In theatre we rarely use commercial stock size patterns, we work from a set of the persons measurements, and either flat draft a pattern (on paper using a set of slightly complicated instructions-if you are a maths whizz you would love this). Or you can cut "on the stand", this involves a tailors dummy, a piece of cloth, pins and some twiddling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> In industry we use Stockman stands. Solid and fixed size calico tailors stands which we pad up to a specific size using a bit of wadding until it is a replica of the person we are making for. They are the lovely things they use on the "Great British Sewing Bee", and cost a lot of money. You used to be able to pick them up second hand when I was a student, but lots of people have bought them to look decorative in their big houses, with maybe a lovely scarf draped across them (not that I am bitter of course). So I have finally accepted that I am never to find a bargain stockman, and instead bought myself a "Lady Valet"( I know it is a silly name). It is not as flimsy as the little adjustable stand I had when I was a teenager. She is somewhere in between a lovely Stockman, and a lightweight dressmakers stand, and she is called Flo.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">She is not merely a decorative prop, she has come in very handy and indeed invaluable when levelling hems and cutting a pattern, and as she is adjustable so I can even make her my size, meaning I no longer have to disrobe in my workroom(back corner where I won't scare the neighbours).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> Isn't she lovely!!! </span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-6647819732858214752014-03-13T02:16:00.000-07:002014-03-13T02:16:07.429-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"> So it was so lovely to get out in the garden at the weekend and tidy up the garden. It is a good feeling to clear away all last seasons dead brown crispy bits, and unearth all the new fresh shoots peeping through the earth. The cheery daffs really gave me a lift.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">The birds have been making themselves known, singing their hearts out, and we have a couple of blue tit families making themselves at home in the bird boxes. I didn't manage to capture them on film but I did spy this little brown bird( Dunnock or house sparrow maybe), he was singing away on the ivy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">The final sign of the weather changing is my washing flapping in the breeze, soo happy to be able to get it dry outside, it always smells so much nicer. It also means we no longer have to walk through a wall of washing dangling off the airer in the lean-to!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">I spied this beauty in Vintage Mischief over the summer, my Mum was staying with us and she saw how much I had fallen in love with it. She was in her original case with bits and bobs in the drawer as if someone had just stopped sewing a moment earlier. I have wanted an old singer for ages and especially a hand crank model, so I can sew through a power cut is the practical excuse, but really I just love these old machines and now have several pre-loved machines of various eras. She was very reasonably priced so I succumbed to my Mum's kind offer and we took her home. We couldn't get her going, so I have finally got around to taking her to see the excellent machine repair shop in my local town and he has made her all well again. The chap who repairs them is very knowlegeable when It comes to machine history, and he was able to tell me it is a 1951 model and that it had hardly been used-but I am going to change all that. Starting with my son, he is always interested in what I am making, and frequently asking to do some knitting or crochet, I have many balls of wool now in a pickle due to his "knitting" technique. As all he has to do nowis turn the wheel he can sew like mummy, he knows that he doesn't put his fingers anywhere near the sharp pointy thing, and I only let him use it under my strict supervision for any H&S worriers out there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Whilst my little boy has been machining I have gone back to a bit of therapeutic hand stitching. I purchased a partly made paper pieced quilt a couple of years ago, and I am slowly completing the final section. Whoever started this lovely thing had kindly done all the donkey work for me, it came with a bag full of hexagons ready to sew together. So not only do you get the joy of looking at all the lovely pieces of vintage cottons, but the lovely little card templates are old cut up greeting cards from way back when. My son loves getting all the brightly coloured hexagons out and making pictures out of them, he sat beside me for a while and selected the next hexagon for me to sew onto my growing section of quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">I spent a happy few hours on Friday afternoon after completing my jobs for the day, preparing a project that had come to me the week before. I have a collection of cloths from all sorts of eras and use the majority of them to make things to sell. I always end up with a few bits left over, so I've been looking out for a way to use them up on something for the house. My industrial machine sits in it's heavy duty table with the motor and associated gubbins dangling out of the bottom, looking quite frankly-ugly! So I decided to pretty it up with a patchwork curtain, using my eclectic mix of scrap vintage cloths.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">So I got out my ruler and rotary cutter and set to turning scraps into squares(5 1/2" squares). Then I started the fun task of arranging the squares in a pleasingly clashy pattern, I didn't quite get them all stitched together before I had to pick up my little one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"> Crafting was temporarily postponed, whilst the important job of den building taken up by myself and my junior engineer, he happily lounged about in here whilst I stitched a bit. He then decided that he would like to get a bit of creating done, so out came the Mr Man comic and a happy pre-tea hour was spent building them a house and completing many a page of stickers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">I came down with some horrid headache, general body ache, sore throat cold to your bones lurgi that night so the curtain was put on hold until today, when I managed to back it and put on a channel for the stretchy wire thingy we(hubby) are going to attach it with, it is only sellotaped on but I am soo pleased with it. No more sitting and staring at an ugly(but brilliant and necessary) engine, and I managed to start and finish something for myself within a few days- a very rare occurrence indeed!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">We are very slowly getting our house how we want it here at Lulumama Towers. 2012/13 was the major building project time, with a new room added, and now its the minor jobs. I say minor but they still take an age, as we seem unable to simply buy an item and install it. We have bit of a soft spot for the old and unloved, and therefore my other half spends a lot of his time taking off old paint, sanding down and re-painting many bits of furniture/light fittings etc etc. One reason for this is that he often picks up pieces which people are throwing away so we get to satisfy our frugal genes. Another reason is that we simply cannot find things we like on the High Street, everything seems the same unless you can afford to pay a lot of money, and reclaim yard prices have gone up lots in the ten years we have lived here. We also get quite excited about finding things that say "Made In England/Britain", they don't turn up a lot on the high street, and i'm not talking handmade Etsy style things because yes there are plenty of those and I do support this market. I am talking about boring industrial things like light fittings and simple fixtures and fittings. My hubby gets very excited if he finds an old bag of British made screws at the back of an old Ironmongery shop(we have a healthy supply of those in our region). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">So here is our latest rescue, a lovely 50s style cupboard with sliding glass doors. The glass has those funny bobbles on, and take me right back to some relatives kitchen when I was a child. It was in a bit of a poor way until Mr Lulu got to it. He lovingly sanded it down and re-painted the inside and out. We have filled it up with our tea and coffee accoutrements, and breakfast gubbins and it is as if it has always been there. We will eventually decorate the kitchen, as it is currently a lurid orange with peeling bits of paint, but just imagine it a nice grey/cream, that is what I will be doing for a while yet!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Whilst the kitchen is an on going project our new room is 99% there. It is light bright and stays warm when you heat it-magic! My little one loves spending time in there, and as you can see enjoys a good jigsaw, we have to help a little of course as this was a 1,000 piecer. We are slowly settling in, although I keep re-arranging my bits and bobs, I have spent sooo long waiting and imagining how it will be that I want it to be just right. I really wanted to have some plantlife in here, but as I generally kill plants I thought i'd start with some simple bulbs. They have filled the room with their heady scent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">My other job this week has been to photograph all my stock, I went a bit mad last year making bits to sell at local markets etc, so now I have an excess of stuff I thought i'd try and sell a bit through my website. A friend has offered to list some of it for me as I am so slow with techie stuff, so yesterday I spent about 5 hours pressing and photographing all the things I have to sell. It ranges from handmade bunting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">I have always enjoyed making things "by hand", since I was little I have always got a kick from starting with a pile of stuff and ending with a pretty/useful/edible product. Nowadays it is very trendy to be able to make things, not a necessity for most for us, as it was when my mum used to make mine and my sister's clothes. It is no longer a cost effective way to clothe/feed ourselves, as cloth, wool and everything associated with the process is expensive. However, like anyone who has tried making their own......., I know the joy it can bring. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">For Christmas 2013 I made my two close friend's gifts. They each got a unique lovingly made cushion, and I crafted a doll for one of their littlies using wool a crochet hook and a little imagination. So every time they rest their behinds they can think of me, mmmm not sure that sounds quite right but I think you get the idea. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">The most rewarding thing about this, was the gifts I received in return were also of the handmade variety. Yes I have infected them with my love of creating, and proved to them that it is easy and really doesn't take that long. Indeed , much to her horror one of my friend's now regularly says this phrase herself. When I first urged her to take up crochet she wouldn't believe me but I have brought her over to the dark side. I usually get my crochet or knitting done, of an evening in front of the tv, so time spent vegetating is also spent creating. I think I have a slight obsession now and feel wrong if I simply sit and watch tv.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Made by hand does of course cover a multitude of "crafts". My Mother-In-Law always make the most delicious cakes, and at special events she makes her choccy marble cake. It has to be baked in the doughnut style tin, and it has to be covered in a thick layer of Cadbury's milk chocolate-yum. If she simply bought a cake it just wouldn't be the same.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">I was commissioned by said In-Law to make a baby blanket for her friend's new Grandchild. So there is the other option. If your simply not into the whole making thing i'm sure you will know some one who is, so go on ask if they can help, or visit one of the excellent handmade sites like Etsy or Folksy and support the growing Handmade businesses out there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">My little one enjoys a bit of creating too. Whether it is with the Playdoh, or building a lighthouse with foghorn and light with his Dad (see weird photo below).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">A great place to get inspiration for a bit of creating is Pinterest. So for all those people I meet who say "I just don't have the imagination" I point them there. My pal shared a fab pin of a button clock which I loved. So I was thrilled when she made me one for Christmas. My other pal who is also a fan of the homemade, has crafted me an objet d'art for the last two birthdays. She is always embarrassed by her creations-who wouldn't love a crochet Satsuma cover, or a felt lipbalm cosy? However, I appreciate these things as much as any other as I know that she has spent time and energy thinking about me and making them-so Thank you Blackbird and Wren, I was vey touched and loved my gifts!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">This is the weird lighthouse, a happy afternoon spent fiddling with wiring, and it makes the most annoying noise when the foghorn is pressed-little person heaven!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">And finally........handmade doesn't have to be forever, my little one loves nothing more than a couple of hours building lego with his Daddy, and Daddy is happy too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">We enjoyed lots of lovely food and company. We had a rare afternoon just the two of us, as the Grandma's kindly looked after our little man, who knew buying the Christmas veg could be such a pleasant experience, just because you don't have to worry about your child getting bored/needing the loo/whining like a wounded animal for no reason etc etc. We went to a local farm shop where my hubby was mistaken for a shop assistant/ farmer(he sports marvellous side burns) and asked for advice on how many sprouts a rather posh local should cook for her family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"> <span style="font-size: large;">My other half has been spending his free time sorting out a window in our larder which used to be on an outside wall pre-building work. he likes to do a proper job, so this has involved a lot of restoration work, sanding re-painting re-puttying etc. This doesn't provide very exciting photos, so instead i thought i'd share our pics of our new kitchen light restoration. We have had a set of the rather grubby looking spots in our kitchen since we moved in a good 10 years ago. Apart from the fact that they have gone that funny yellowy white that all aged white items seem to go, they are also unbelieveably mucky. I have tried to clean them, but the years of built up dirt dust and grease have made this an impossible job. Were it not for the fact that one of bulbs seem to blow every week we may have just continued to put up with them. However, i found three lovely old bulk head lights for sale at the Fair on the green in Southwold over the summer, for the very reasonable price of £6 each so the 1980s spots have gone. Mr Lulumama set about cleaning them up, sanding them down and giving them a new coat of paint inside and out. They give off a much better light and look sooo much better than their predessesors, and its nice to know that we are re-using something that was made here(well in Scotland) possibly 50 years ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After the terribly strong winds of Monday, (we got off pretty much unscathed save a rogue wheelie bin taking itself off for a walk) we had a real treat this last week. Some visitors from the West Country flew in for a quick visit. We worked out that we have been friends for a mere 17 years, since meeting at college many moons ago. I can't quite believe that it has been this long. We last saw each other Autumn half term2012, when they spent a week in Southwold. This year ithe venue was Lulumama towers, not quite 5 stars, but they seemed to enjoy it. The children all got on like a house on fire, it was so lovely to have the hubub of siblings playing and occasionally squabbling filling our house!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was over all to soon, but I would like to take this chance to thank my pal for driving a monumental distance to spend some of their half term with us-we miss you!!!</span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-4149883653709494942013-10-23T03:26:00.000-07:002013-10-23T03:26:16.732-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Our poor neglected garden is still doing us proud, and producing marvelous specimens like these. They aren't oversized courgettes (honest) but two lovely marrows. We had them for lunch last weekend, stuffed with tasty sausagemeat, mushrooms, peppars and olives, followed by a yummy crumble, made from of our modest bramley harvest. This special lunch was shared with our friends and their two children, we haven't had them over since our building work began. It was soo nice to be able to all sit comfortabley in our new room (get used to hearing about the new room a lot, it has made a huge impact on our quality of life!), and best of all have a good catch up with some lovely friends. they have two boys, one the same age as ours(3ish), and a younger boy who is nearly one. He was just walking and had no built in fear of anything hazardous, i'd forgotten how much you have to watch them, and thankfully his Mum noticed when he was choking on a marble, or making a bee line for the hot stove, our house is just a giant deathtrap to a little one that age. We had a great afternoon, which ended abruptly when the general 3-4pm meltdown occurred, this seems to be the witching hour from all children from birth to hopefully not much longer for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">So i have whipped up a few more, in lovely retro cloths. I have lined them all with some lovely unbleached calico, and included an inside pocket for all those bits that get lost in the chaos of a good sized bag. I must admit to wanting to keep them all but i will be strong and think of the pennies(fingers crossed).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">It hasn't all been work, work, work though. I managed to get to the Knitting and Stitching Fair at Ally Pally the other weekend. My good friend and I headed off in the early hours to the big smoke, and had a thoroughly lovely day. We were both quite restrained in our purchases, buying a few treats, and as has become our tradition, stopped on the way home for an Ikea fix and a tea of their fine if equine meatballs. More of my purchases another time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It has been a busy few weeks at Chez Lulumama. September is over and i only managed three posts last month, I have kind of lost my way a bit. The first few weeks of September shot by, maybe it is because Master W has started going to pre-school for his full 15 hours a week. Our 'days off' are kept busy meeting up with friends. I spend a lot of time with two lovely ladies and their little ones, we all met at our NCT classes and have met up regularly since. Our Thursday meet ups have become sacred, to the point where we arrange everything around them. We alternate between houses, so it at least forces me to do some cleaning every 3 weeks! Along with lots of other friends i have made since becoming a Mummy, my two pals have helped me through some difficult times. So to anyone reading this who is expecting , i would say go to an antenatal class/bumps and babes group, friends are your most important piece of 'equipment'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Hello there, i am back. Thanks to Lauren at Edge Computers in Beccles i am re-united with my pooter. The email is still wonky as it is my provider having a dicky fit, not my little pooter, so apologies to anyone who may have tried to contact me, i am due to receive a new password soon, and then all shall be well(fingers crossed). I have been trying for a while now to come up with some fundraising ideas for my son's pre-school, that would use my talents and be appealing enough for people to part with their hard earned cash for. I have decided that Christmas is always something that people will spend a few pennies on, so i will be offering personalised stockings ( to put gifts in, not slinky pins). The above is the final "draft" of a few ideas that have been bouncing around my head as i try to get to sleep at night. It is made from red felt, green felt, funky "noel" ribbon and unbleached canvas and calico, i have had to try and find something simple enough that i could make lots(ha ha ever the optimist) but appealing to pre-school parents. Hopefully i have struck the right chord, and the pre-school approve, and then its just a wait and see if any orders come in! I have so many ideas at the moment of things i want to make, that i feel like i might pop, but as usual life gets in the way. I couldn't quite believe it this week when my fat club leader told us it was only 15 weeks until Christmas-eek. I screamed internally, and ran through all the projects i was aiming to get done pre the 25th of Dec, 15 weeks will never be enough time! Anyway i shall leave you with that happy thought.....see you again soon, catx</span><br /></div>
Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-38791695582147921412013-09-11T05:01:00.002-07:002013-09-11T05:01:35.417-07:00<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My Computer is not well, i think it has got the end of summer blues, so if you don't hear from me for a while-do not panic, i will be back!</span></span> Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-44145011830659451562013-09-04T00:11:00.002-07:002013-09-04T00:12:18.966-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;">Well i have finally finished my theatre work so i have heaved a sigh of relief</span>. <span style="color: purple;">I couldn't have manged it without the help of my lovely Mum and my Mother-in law</span>. <span style="color: purple;">They both did stirling work looking afetr little one for me, and my Mum is a whizz at sewing on buttons and removing the miles of tacking. We did manage to get out for a few days out, and of course we had to go to Southwold. I have to take Mum there every time she visits, and Little man and i are definitley not complaining. We parked at Walberswick and had a lovely lunch in the Garden tea rooms(thank you Grandma), and then walked across the marshes to Southwold Common, it was absolutley boiling hot so it was good to go for a cuppa at the boating lake</span> <span style="color: purple;">. We met a friend and her little girl and my other half, and enjoyed a good pot of tea. Unable to contain themselves for much longer we then made it onto the beach, there were many brave souls taking a dip, but we made do with a paddle and all ended up with soggy hems!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have lots more lovely photos to show you of my brief time off sewing duty, but my laptop has gone weird and won't let me post them, obviousley someone is sending me a message to get on with some work, so bye for now!</span></span></span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-36833328111080553632013-08-23T05:27:00.001-07:002013-08-23T05:27:30.820-07:00<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well this phrase perfectly describes life here at Lulumama Towers at the moment. We have had a lovely few weeks of various relatives visiting, and i have been inundated with work. The relatives have been a marvellous help looking after little one whilst i get on with things, but i wish i could have spent more time with them as they live a long way away. As usual i am very happy to have all this work, we need the pennies, and it has given me a chance to use our newly (nearly) completed extension. However, why is it that it is always comes along in a big clump? I'm sure that every self employed person lives within the feast or famine world but it is still very annoying. For anyone reading this thinking "ungrateful cow, at least you have got the work" i say, yes quite simply you are right, but i'm still allowed a little moan. So i hope that explains my absence from the blogging world recently. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The above shot is the inside of one of the three tailored frock coats i have been making for a certain musical about a green witch and a blonde white witch, it goes on tour this week. I thought that you would like to see what goes on on the inside of a tailored coat. The cream colured area is the inside chest canvas, the black stitching is the pad stitched collar, this stitching gives the collar its "roll" and the black tape line is the break line of the collar, the fluffy stuff is the chest padding and helps give the jacket structure. So there you go now you know a little bit of what your ticket money goes towards. This is a character which is going to be played by 3 artistes, so each actor has to have his own costume, which is drafted and cut to his size(by a lovely man called Mervyn), fitted on him, and then finished off. For each actor i have to make a separate coat, shirt, waistcoat with working pockets, and a pair of trousers. So there you go, i'm off now to carry on sewing, but keep checking my blog i will be back soon.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ps, i have been treating myself whilst i work with some trips out to the veg patch to see what is ready to munch, our blueberry bush has done us proud!</span></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-56836480366961673652013-08-04T00:42:00.000-07:002013-08-04T00:42:29.511-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;">I am very lucky this week to be enjoying the company of a few members of my family. This is a tremendous treat as they live over 5 hours away, and we don't get to see enough of each other. I miss them all immensley, and wish my little one could see his "big Cousin" much more. They are both growing up at an alarmimg rate, mine is leaving toddlerhood and my nephew is turning into a young man. Little man loves his cousin and vice versa despite the big age gap! </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Today we visited Dunwich, a pretty coastal village, of which a great portion disappeared into the sea in the 1?th centuary. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">We have enjoyed lots of this all weekend, it began on friday when we headed off, car packed to the limit, for a weekend campmg with friends. We headed off to a gorgeous part of Suffolk, with a very different feel to our area of the region. The reason for our trip was a Beer Festival in the picturesque village of Hawkeden at the Queen's head Inn. We had been invited by a friend, whose parents are big cheeses in the camping and caravaning club, to stay in what was essentially someone's (very large) back garden, it was heavenly. There were several of her parent's friends all staying in their tardis like caravan and motorhomes(became rather a fan of these over the weekend-very comfy and cosy) there too and we had a very nice few days, eating sitting about and enjoying seeing the littlies loving being outside and amusing themselves. My friend and i escaped for a spot of shopping therapy to Bury-St Edmunds after depositing the boys(small and big) at the pub. here we indulged in a bit of afternoon tea.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">After some helpful advice from my pal i purchased a new camera, something which i should have done ages ago, my old one used to take ages to take a photo, so i have missed many fab shots of my little man as he moves quicker than a whippet, but with my new equipment i can capture it all. It has lots of fancy features, so expect a lot of sepia shots over the next few posts!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">After our retail therapy we headed back to the pub to rescue our boys and to their delight an old routemaster pulled up, bringing more drinkers to the festival. The driver very kindly let our boys(small and large) on board for a mooch about.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We ended a lovely day with chips and chinese on the green at long melford and headed back to the camp for bed!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Camp Lulumama-with the most important bit-the food table,ready for breakfast!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">This is what i enjoy most about camping with lots of people, everybody chipping in and sitting around in the open all eating together, things definitley taste better in the fresh air.............................................................</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">A big thank you to Karen and Dean for a lovely welcome, and thankyou to The wren's(in laws) for inviting us!</span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-83404510861450163282013-07-16T13:13:00.002-07:002013-07-16T13:13:34.090-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: magenta;"> We have been enjoying lots of local fruit at the moment, my little one would do anything for some strawberries/raspberries. On a Sunday night the ice cream van pays a call to our road, so we did the usual purse scramble and ran outside to get our fix. The ice cream is made down the road and is proper old fashioned italian stuff( Parravanis), they will fill your bowl if you take it outside (as we used to have to do before we got our freezer box), this time we plumped for Strawberry flavour to compliment our soft fruit-yum! </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Little one enjoyed building roads in the sand with his Daddy whilst i got on with a project that i am desperatley trying to finish. He delights in smashing sandcastles rather than building them, so after a bit of mindless violence we cooled down with a paddle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Token artistic shot of sun dappled sea.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Had to take a photo of this lovely old car(think it is a morris minor, i forgot to check), it was all spic and span and reminded me of my little green mini which i used to bomb around in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Obligatory shot of the lighthouse, this is my son's favourite feature of the town, he is not quite big enough to climb up all the steps . I love all the lovely houses and cottages, and like to pick a different one to pretend i live in each time i visit, this time i plumped for the cream house in the middle of a row of sherbert coloured terraces.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Everybody's gardens were looking splendid, i particularly loved these gorgeous red hollyhocks, and i love the glimpses you get down all the little alleyways. We finished the day with a jam doughnut from the pump st bakery van( a very cool citroen van which i forgot to photo-doh), it was lip licking good and a perfect end to a smashing day!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"> Had a lovely morning today whilst little one was at pre-school, enjoyed a cuppa with someone i've been trying to meet up with for a while. Have spent the afternoon cutting out a few tunics from the pattern that she kindly picked up for me at a carboot</span>, <span style="color: purple;">whilst my little one snoozed on the sofa-perfect day!</span>Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418548223296537003noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064902712768970777.post-81027701801887947152013-07-08T02:39:00.000-07:002013-07-08T02:39:40.128-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;">Had a sewing fest this week in between official work and looking after little one. made a few more bits for Southwold Market (mondays in the centre). Had a piece of this fab french cloth left and managed to eek out a pinny dress, the back is lovely soft wool/cotton blend cloth and i've finished it off with some fun hat buttons. Also made a few loghtweight snugglebags for the hot weather,l fully lined in 100% cotton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I have been makking a host of different frocks to sell at Vintage Mischief, from full skirted 50s frocks to 60s shifts, mostly from original patterns and cloth. As i said in my last post i need to put them on a "body", not finding any lying around i squeeze myself into them and get hubby to take a shot. On saturady we had a special party at my Mother-in-Law's house, as she turned 70 this week. I rushed to get this dress complete to whizz it into the shop. However, i really liked it, and it fit, and my hubby said i looked nice in it(quite a rare occurence) so i kept it! I teamed it with a little peach shrug and wandered around the town feeling very summery, despite that fact the sun was hiding and rain was threatening. I wore it to said party and it got the thumbs up. I also modelled the swing trousers i have started making, the first pair are in the shop and no photo will appear as they were a little tight on me and i had very unattractive vpl! This dress was the on the extreme right of the pattern, minus the sleeves as the 50s curtain i was using wasn't big enough to cut sleeves too. I will be making more of this style as i think it is very flattering and very wearable!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">It got a bit snugger fitting after a few plates of party fayre!<b> Happy Birthday Grandma Ann.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>L</b>ots has been happening at Chez L over the last few weeks, with the garden-growing and blooming, moving into the new room(temporarily until we get the gas and flooring sorted), haircuts (not usually big news i know) and lots of trips out and about now that its "summer". I had a big chop on Saturday, slightly influenced by going to see Gatsby last week, embracing my inner flapper i've gone for a short bob, feel like i should be wandering around with a gin and lounging on chaise longue in flappy trousers. My son declared "your hair looks nice Mummy" when i got home, my hubby denies priming him but i'm not so sure. He requested a back of head shot after i'd had mine done, his hair looks very much in need of a cut but i don't want to its too sweet all messy and curly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">My "day job" work arrived last week so i am busy working on lots of green items to be fitted over the next few weeks. I haven't had any "proper" work for a couple of months so it feels good to be doing something for which i trained hard for. I love doing my other bits and bobs, alterations and Lulumama garments but costume is what got me sewing in the first place. I worked for several years for a lovely theatrical tailor and learnt so much, it was a happy calm place to work, and seemed very bizarre that we were making costumes for all these big london productions in a liitle workroom in the wilds of Norfolk. I am lucky enough to still get work from said tailor, even though he relocated to shropshire the year my son was born. He cuts the garments and sends them to me, and then fits them which is marvellous as i can't get down to fittings whilst looking after little one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I have managed to squeeze in a few more frocks for Vintage Mischief, i have made another 1940s frock, adorned with vintage buttons, and a couple more made to original 60s/50s patterns. It has been lovely having an excuse to use these patterns, some of which have never been used. There are several more on the go which i will finish off between work. I must try to photograph them on a body, they look so limp on the hangers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Random photo of my little one with a friend at Banham Zoo in the half term, they looked so cute holding hands! And pictures of my big poppies before the wind and rain destroyed them!</span><br />
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<u><span style="color: purple;">Flaming June</span></u><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Well after what has felt like the longest build up summer is finally here........sort of. Our garden pinged into life a couple of weeks ago and now there is no stopping it, everything is greening up and seems to grow before your eyes.</span><br />
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W<span style="color: purple;">e planted some asparagus crowns 3 years ago, and this year we are finally allowed to harvest and eat it, woo hoo! We picked our first modest bunch last weekend as our Wedding anniversary</span> <span style="color: purple;">treat, it was scrummy. We have also been enjoying the rhubarb, as we have to keep eating it before it consumes littlies sandpit! The good weather has got me making more summery frocks, i made a repeat of the 1940s-esque one in the earlier post, it worked really well with this more drapey cloth</span>. <span style="color: purple;">I have also made a wrap style frock, but more of that later.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We have a new resident here at chez Lulumama, a blackbird has made its nest on our new extension, so someone is enjoying our new space before we do. It is lovely to look up and see Mrs Merle atop her pile of twigs!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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